All of Me for a Piece of You, Part 4
Lecture & Workshop with Jan Verwoert

There is a big difference between modes and method. Modes are embedded in a mimetic understanding of worlds being born from multiple energetic relations. Modern method, by contrast, has but one principle: identify & isolate & appropriate. Modern man reads the world to rule it.
Method kills the arts (for arts are modes, multiple & relational at heart). Unless the arts draw first: Urban avant-gardists mimicked method to coin militant modes of fighting back against the brutal industry of unreason.
Meanwhile magical mimetic modes of qualitative reading survive in everyday art practices. When work works and transports you to a different sphere, your desires are read by the work, as the work takes you where it feels you may have wanted to go, with it.

The lecture on 13 June at 20:00 will be followed by a workshop session on 14 June at 11:00. During the workshop, the ideas presented in the talk, as well as excerpts from the manuscript of a forthcoming book will be discussed in greater depth through communal peer-review discussions.